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JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music
- jeremiecoullon 6y agothis is great. The Kohl concert is hard to type at the right pace though :)
- disillusioned 6y agoWas just trying it. You have to try to guess where the interstitial notes will appear...
- mortenjorck 6y agoI thought I would be familiar enough with Blue in Green to get the tempo right, but my memory was no match for Bill Evans' improvisational style!
- fredfjohnsen 6y agoIt's the Köln concert actually. The internet is pretty cool - you can look these things up when you don't know anything about them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert Also, this JazzKeys post is worse than useless.
- foodigger 6y agoyeah your practically Miles Davis, without talent.
- afandian 6y agoThere's an eathter egg!
- zakk 6y agoReminds me of Mikutap: https://aidn.jp/mikutap/ https://aidn.jp/mikutap/
- screye 6y agoThis was incredibly fun. I just spent 10 minutes making what sounded pretty good to my ears.
- moreira 6y agoOh my god this is the best thing ever. I want to save this as audio to listen to.
- maddyboo 6y agoThat was awesome! I really want to make something like this now. I love how the samples are queued and played in time with the tempo.
- modeless 6y agoAlso https://touchpianist.com/ https://touchpianist.com/ Edit: Oh, and this one looks silly but generates surprisingly nice chord progressions that actually resolve sometimes: https://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/ https://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/
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- pieq 6y agoThe choir is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing!
- iKlsR 6y agoFor anyone who liked this, enjoy https://www.incredibox.com/ https://www.incredibox.com/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20160430185156/http://www.madeon.fr/adventuremachine https://web.archive.org/web/20160430185156/http://www.madeon...
- cosmojg 6y agoPatatap is probably my absolute favorite of all time when it comes to this kind of thing: https://patatap.com/ https://patatap.com/
- exabrial 6y agoARGH How do I resolve to major????
- exabrial 6y agoAlso, can't figure out how to play the lick
- diimdeep 6y agoIn network inspector you can find midi files that can be downloaded and played for example in VLC.
- kanobo 6y agoSounds nice, I like the minimalist look. But I think it would be a giant leap if the music was somehow related to what is being typed. Also it took a while to load, it could use a loading progress indicator — I thought it was broken and was opening it in different browsers thinking Safari wasn't supported.
- christiansakai 6y agoI press the same letter on a keyboard and it just makes some jazz licks. How do I intend to play this?
- ralmeida 6y agoNice touch that deleting letters descends chromatically. Letters typed appear unrelated to notes generated, you can type the same letter and it will keep generating different notes. Also, it seems it will never resolve to the root, no matter what you type :(
- luckydata 6y agoNever give any satisfaction to the listener, no matter what, pretty much the most important rule of high brow jazz.
- spacechild1 6y agoit makes you keep typing and be more productive. very clever, if you ask me.
- cocktailpeanuts 6y agoThis wins the day. How do I jam multiple instruments?
- RBerenguel 6y agoI need this as an emacs mode. Would make coding feel different
- jimhefferon 6y agoNo Android, unfortunately.
- toohotatopic 6y agoWhy does it not work?
- jimhefferon 6y agoI got a message saying it won't work under Android.
- grimmdude 6y agoHa very cool! I like that punctuation marks add some flair.
- smrk007 6y agoI want this as a VSCode or Vim extension!
- jwalton 6y agoMaybe something discordant when you type in a variable name that isn't defined? :D
- djohnston 6y agowow if writing clean code improv'd a jazz piece i could definitely go back to coding 12 hours a day
- jdpigeon 6y agogodamnit, another side project idea that I'll never find the time to finish!
- forgetcolor 6y agoThis is mostly just using the keyboard to manipulate the rhythm/time performance of a pre-configured score. Interesting, but not what most would think of as jazz improvisation.
- hammock 6y agoNot exactly. It is far more random than that. As far as I can tell, it plays random notes from a pre-loaded scale - occasionally chords, and punctuation marks play chords. Backspace plays a descending scale. The aesthetics of it, including typography and sounds are very nice. And typing () leads to a special easter egg :)
- Trufa 6y agoVague related shameless plug, if anyone wants to give me feedback on this: https://practicemusic.net/ https://practicemusic.net/ I'd gladly take it!
- cmrdsprklpny 6y agoThis might be intentional on your part, but it seems to mark enharmonic equivalents as incorrect (a 5th from Gb is Db, which is the same as C# but C# is marked as incorrect).
- wcarss 6y agomake it give a way to show the answer and/or move on -- I don't know what I'm doing, but I could learn if it taught me.
- zoytek 6y agoLove it.. I reckon I could write an EP for listening to on the way to work!
- danonino 6y agoJazz in Hacker News. Should I submit something about reggaeton next? This is getting RIDICULOUS. Gimme the old HN back!
- jimwhite 6y agoThis is great. Would love to be able to enable this on my keyboard for typing everything as a bit of an upgrade over my super clicky mechanical keyboard.
- modeless 6y agoWould be cool to do sentiment analysis on the typed text to switch between major/minor or other characteristics.
- bananamerica 6y agoI want that as an Emacs minor mode!
- starlineventure 6y agoTry typing in "rain" or "wind"
- fudged71 6y ago"Ocean" also works
- decko 6y agoOr "window"
- libraryatnight 6y agobirds too :) this thing's a delight.
- ipiz0618 6y agoGenius!! From what I can tell it seems to be random keys? Would be nice if a certain progression can be specified, but this is already awesome. Saving this as my new note taking tool.
- corytheboyd 6y agoI have a feature request BESIDES make it less random! When you delete all text with select all and then backspace/del it should make a huge loud combination of noises!
- joan_kode 6y agoThis is really well done. I find the default "free form" mode is by far the most interesting, and it's more complex than a lot of the comments are implying here. It cycles between different patterns, and the pattern is changed by inserting a space or punctuation. You can easily verify this by typing an extremely long word without spaces: the pattern becomes apparent, even though it's always transposed up or down by 5 semitones when it repeats. This interval is well chosen - it effectively explores all possible transpositions of the pattern, while keeping the transitions harmonious. This also means that the tonality is constantly wandering, there is no overall key but only transient tonalities. Different punctuation marks provide different collections of more-or-less conclusive chords. This might be the only place where tonality is hinted at, especially if you bash the comma, you can hear it's rooted in one key for the whole session. As far as I can tell those special characters are / ! ? 1 . , I haven't figured out if the patterns are generated on-the-fly or chosen from a predefined set, but they tend to have a nice melodic quality. Someone also mentioned special words rain and wind, but there are more... very fun to explore. The concept is nice but the execution is especially interesting.
- UniIsland 6y agoAgreed. Great concept and execution. The "share" feature shows that it also implemented a format to serialize the typing sequence and stores it on server. If I still write letters to friends, I'd definitely start using this from now on.
- elomarns 6y agoI don't know anything about jazz or how to create any kind of music, but it's so relaxing to type while listening to these notes. I would love this as an application integrated with the OS, so I can listen it with every keystroke.
- lysp 6y agoTry: .... Also try smileys: :) and :( (for major minor)
- UniIsland 6y agoIt appears nobody noticed the "share" feature, which records your typing sequence and replays it. I think it's amazing to use this feature to write letters. Try reading this poem to see what I mean. https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/?msg=-MBSxW78xad7GiKhvr6j https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/?msg=-MBSxW78xad7GiKhvr6j
- libraryatnight 6y agoThis is super friggin cool. I love this.
- UniIsland 6y agop.s. It also records your typos and deletions. p.p.s. While I was typing this poem, my wife thought that I was listening to a new jazz song and asked me what song it was.
- emsign 6y agohttps://jazzkeys.plan8.co/?msg=-MBeGU8Te_CQdizj2E9v https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/?msg=-MBeGU8Te_CQdizj2E9v I improvised this as I was typing. The "Peace Piece" song was the inspiration for what I wrote. It's a really fun way of creative writing. The text isn't very good, but it feels like writing is like a performance.
- dasyatidprime 6y agoInteresting concept. Audio's crackly at times on my Linux Firefox. Though I keep waiting for something like this to show up that's more grounded in music theory… Aww, I can't type outside ASCII range? Drat, I wanted to see whether different languages (even in Latin script) were distinguishable by sound this way.